Dr Claire Lougarre

Overview

Dr Claire Lougarre is a Lecturer at Ulster University School of Law and a member of the Transitional Justice Institute. She is also the Programme Director of the LLM in Human Rights, the LLM in Gender and Human Rights, and the LLM in Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice.

Claire's primary research expertise lies at the intersection of human rights law and health. Broadly speaking, she is interested in international and European human rights law, sexual and reproductive health and rights, as well as the law of treaties. Claire is currently working on the human rights impact of the absence of first-trimester screening in Northern Ireland. She is also working on the implications of EU law developments in equality and human rights post-Brexit, in the context of Article 2 of the Windsor Framework.

Claire has provided consultancy services to the Council of Europe on NGOs’ engagement with the European Committee of Social Rights, and to the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland on the divergence of rights post-Brexit across the island of Ireland. Claire has also discussed her research on antenatal screening with the Committee for Health at the Northern Ireland Assembly; and has submitted evidence to UK Parliament on UK’s human rights obligations to reform abortion law in Northern Ireland, and to realise the right to health during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Claire joined Ulster University School of Law in 2022. Before joining the School of Law, Claire worked as a Lecturer at the University of Southampton (2014-2022); and prior to that, as a Teaching Fellow at University College London, King’s College London and the University of Galway. Claire completed her LLB at Université Toulouse Capitole, her LLM at University of Galway, and her PhD at University College London.